Newark woman arrested for assault with deadly weapon

A 20-year-old Newark woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for an incident in the 6000 block of Thornton Avenue on Thursday morning, police said.

Police said officers were dispatched to that location at 11:08 a.m. Thursday to investigate a report of an assault with a blunt object.

They said the suspect, Jasmine Ann Minjarez, and the victim, who was not named, were both still at the scene when officers arrived and the victim was taken to a local hospital to be treated for injuries that were not life-threatening and was released a short time later.

Minjarez was identified as the suspect in the case and arrested, police said. She is being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $30,000 bail.

Police said they do not have any other details on the incident at this time.